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• Petroleum refining processes [r]: The chemical engineering processes used in petroleum refining. ^[e]

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• Chemical engineering [r]: a branch of engineering that uses chemistry, biology, physics, and math to solve problems involving fuel, drugs, food, and many other products ^[e]

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• Catalytic reforming [r]: A catalytic chemical process that converts petroleum naphthas into high-octane gasoline components. ^[e]
• Fluid catalytic cracking [r]: A petroleum refining process that cracks the large hydrocarbon molecules in the portion of the petroleum crude oil boiling above 340 °C into lower boiling, more valuable high octane gasoline and olefinic gases. ^[e]
• Gasoline [r]: A fuel for spark-ignited internal combustion engines derived from petroleum crude oil. ^[e]
• Hydrocracking [r]: A catalytic chemical process used in petroleum refineries for converting the high-boiling constituent hydrocarbons in petroleum crude oils to more valuable lower-boiling products such as gasoline, kerosene, jet fuel and diesel oil. ^[e]
• Hydrodesulfurization [r]: A catalytic chemical process used in petroleum refining to remove sulphur compounds from intermediate and refined end-products. ^[e]
• Merox [r]: A process for removing the mercaptans from certain petroleum refinery products by oxidizing them to liquid hydrocarbon disulphides. ^[e]
• Natural gas condensate [r]: A low-boiling mixture of hydrocarbon liquids that are present as gaseous components in the raw natural gas produced from many natural gas production fields. ^[e]
• Petrochemicals [r]: Chemical products made from the hydrocarbons present in raw natural gas and petroleum crude oil. ^[e]
• Petroleum refining processes [r]: The chemical engineering processes used in petroleum refining. ^[e]
• Reid vapor pressure [r]: A measure of the volatility of petroleum crude oil, gasoline and other volatile petroleum products that is widely used in the petroleum industry. ^[e]